Feel Free: Essays by Zadie Smith
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Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
"Brilliant...[Smith's] new book is lively, intelligent and frequently hilarious, and proves that she's one of the brightest minds in English literature today...She considers Brexit and Key & Peele, J.G. Ballard and Jay-Z, Billie Holiday and Justin Bieber. Refreshingly, she does it all without the ki ...Show more
Accidental Feminists by Jane Caro
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Category: Essays
Women over fifty-five are of the generation that changed everything. We didn't expect to. Or intend to. We weren't brought up much differently from the women who came before us, and we rarely identified as feminists, although almost all of us do now. Accidental Feminists is our story. It explores how th ...Show more
Talkin' up to the White Woman - Indigenous Women and Feminism (20th Anniversary Edition) by Aileen Moreton-Robinson
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Category: Essays
In this ground-breaking and timeless book, Distinguished Professor Aileen Moreton-Robinson undertakes a compelling analysis of the whiteness of Australian feminism and its effect on Indigenous women. As a Goenpul woman and an academic, she operationalises an Indigenous women's standpoint as she 'talks ...Show more
Man’s Search for Meaning: The Classic Tribute to Hope from the Holocaust (With New Material) (HB) by Viktor E Frankl
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Category: Essays
A prominent Viennese psychiatrist before the war, Viktor Frankl was uniquely able to observe the way that both he and others in Auschwitz coped (or didn't) with the experience. He noticed that it was the men who comforted others and who gave away their last piece of bread who survived the longest - and ...Show more
Dear Dolly: On Love, Life and Friendship, the instant Sunday Times bestseller by Dolly Alderton
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Category: Essays
From the bestselling and beloved author of Everything I Know about Love and Ghosts - the definitive selection of her Dear Dolly agony aunt letters and answers from her hugely popular Sunday Times Style column- with an introduction by Dolly. 'What I learnt from sharing my most private pain with a semi-pr ...Show more
Why Orwell Matters by Christopher Hitchens
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Category: Essays
"Hitchens presents a George Orwell fit for the 21st century. "-Boston Globe. In this widely acclaimed biographical essay, Christopher Hitchens assesses the life, the achievements, and the myth of the great political writer and participant George Orwell. In true emulative and contrarian style, Hitchens i ...Show more
Lost at Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries by Jon Ronson
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Category: Essays | Reading Level: good
Jon Ronson is fascinated by madness, extraordinary behaviour and the human mind. He has spent his life investigating crazy events, following fascinating people and unearthing unusual stories. Collected here from various sources (including the "Guardian" and "GQ America") are the best of his adventures. ...Show more
As I Was Saying - A Collection of Musings by Robert Dessaix
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Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
AS I WAS SAYING is a swirling conversation with the reader on everything from travel to dogs and cats, from sport and swearing to the pleasures of idleness. Punctuated at regular intervals by talks Dessaix has given on a wide range of subjects, as well as by some of his most incisive journalism, the con ...Show more
Larrikan Bush Tales by Graham Seal
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Category: Essays
From one of our master storytellers, author of the bestselling Great Australian Stories, comes another collection of yarns, tall tales, bush legends, and colorful characters. Taking us from the deep outback to the glistening sea, they go to the heart of what makes us distinctively Australian.
An Inconvenient Genocide - Who Remembers the Armenians? by Geoffrey Robertson
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Category: Essays
The most controversial issue left over from the First World War - was there an Armenian Genocide? - comes to a head on 24 April 2015, when Armenians throughout the world commemorate the centenary of the murder of 1.5 million - over half - of their people, at the hands of the Ottoman Turkish government. ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 56: Clivosaurus: The Politics of Clive Palmer by Guy Rundle
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Category: Essays | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
Who is Clive Palmer, and what does his ascent say about Australia's creaking political system?In Clivosaurus, Guy Rundle observes Palmer close up, examining his rise to prominence, his beliefs, his deals and his politics - not to mention his poetry. Rundle shows that neither the government nor the media ...Show more